Given it’s 95 years after publication…
…great, right on time for my 100th birthday!
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I just realized that I’d kind of assumed you were about 10 years older than me, but I guess you’re not. 
I’ll be expecting the 122 year old Ron Gilbert to deliver the MI3a right around my 110th birthday.
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Some of us are hilariously close together in fact. Like as if we could have been classmates or something. 
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I’m feeling comparatively old now 
. I’ll be close to a signed byte overflow by the time the MI Special Editon enters the PD. Would be a good age to start over young again 
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I also feel old thinking about the fact a person very close to me on this forum shares a birth year with that Tentacle Game and that game with the Canine and Hare detectives. 
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I’m not sure if I’d even learned to read by the time that came out, so let’s not get over ourselves wallowing in age.
I had to stay inside all spring & summer just after I was born due to radiation fallout. Talk about a fun first year of life… the Year of the Tentacle Game sounds like a better deal than Chernobyl. 
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The worst part is that I’ve been told this lots of times in person. “1985? Really? I thought you were born around the mid-70s”
do I really look that older than I actually am?
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Heh, I just meant you’re full of references to ancient King’s Quest games and other Sierra titles. As someone who didn’t really play any computer games until '96 I didn’t find those very palatable gameplay-wise compared to Monkey Island/Fate of Atlantis/DotT and the like. I never had any issues with old games like Monkey Island, quite the opposite.
Same, one of the first things in my life must have been a temporary sandlot ban for that same reason.
Well uh…I think if we were lined up next to each other people would probably think I´m younger than you (which I am but only by a few months) but they´d probably think I´m much younger for reasons I probably shouldn´t mention (but it´s on my head…sorry )
I think maybe he´s just like me and got a bit of a headstart by being exposed to games very early on, which was 1990 in my case and the Commodore 64 (which was on its way out by that time, but how would you be able to tell that if that´s your first exposure to computers?).
I think a very significant difference this makes for me to most people on here I guess is that I never actively pirated any games. We were just brought them from the friends and family members who got us set up with the hardware (C64 first, Amiga later) and I played them (or watch others play, then played myself to be more accurate). I remember doing the code wheel for the MI games by using see through paper copies of the two wheels. 
However, redemption was also rather soon for me, first when we got MM as a boxed version later down the road (which is something we initially did for Zak, we never pirated that) when I got my first computer and the 10 Adventures Box:
I guess in the end it probably would have been important to buy the games legit closer to release.
So did all of us have at least some part in lowering the sales that way which caused Ron Gilbert to leave Lucas Arts which fucked us all forever out of playing the Monkey Island 3 he would have had in mind back then?
Yes!
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Someone asked me if I was a student just a few months ago. Make of that what you will. 
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Could have happened to me!
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And to me, except it no longer happened in the last ten years. Guess I’ll pass as a 30-something now 
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It depends on several things I think. My full head of hair makes me probably look younger than I am, but when I grow my salt and peppery beard out I certainly look a lot older.
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Sometimes I get told the opposite… must be the hair. Or the immature jokes.
Hey, me too!
Yeah, we all had a lot of “friends” back then
No, except if you count not being able to afford a PC and waiting desperately for another SCUMM game to appear for the C64 after Zak.
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Back then I read in a games magazine that Indy and Loom wouldn’t be released on the C64. I can’t tell you how disappointed I was.
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TL;DR: January 1st 2108 and 2111 respectively
Technically speaking, there will be a couple of years in between MM and MI. Which made me think: I believe it is the last publication date that counts? So even including MM in DOTT pushes the date of release to public domain. Not so much an issue for the public who have a copy as it is to the artists/creators who might like to reclaim their creation they sold when they were young and needed the money.
Some interesting reads from the music industry where remastered and re-releases are done just for that purpose
However, after 120 years of the first creation, the copyright expires. As we all will have by that time.
Interesting read on video games: https://www.forbes.com/sites/modeledbehavior/2017/06/25/how-bad-intellectual-property-laws-hurt-video-game-consumers/amp/
For the record: I am not advocating piracy in any way here. Just interesting to see how laws can alienate the fans from the creators until either or both die, just to allow some big corporations to squeeze a few more dimes out of nostalgic people.
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I feel you!
(The guy who wrote the wall post here doesn’t 
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There still is hope though…
(from the Zzap! 64 Annual 2022)
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Just do what I do - use a 10-year old photo in your avatar. Haha. Maybe I’ll update it when Disney releases the next MI game?